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Under article 44 (4) of the 2001 PRC Trademark Law, if a registered trademark has not been used for three consecutive years any party may file a non-use cancellation application with the China trademark Office

The Standardization Administration of China and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine have issued draft Disposal Rules for the Inclusion of Patents in National Standards

24 April 2009, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), the authority responsible for merger control review under the Anti-Monopoly Law (the AML), published its decision granting conditional clearance for the US$1.6bn acquisition by Mitsubishi Rayon (MRC) of the British chemicals producer Lucite International (Lucite

As China's policymakers seek to boost the country's renewable energy sector, a series of policies and regulations has been announced, including the revision of the Renewable Energy Law and the removal of a policy requiring 70 per cent of the equipment for any Chinese wind farm project to be domestically produced

On 18 March 2009, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), the authority responsible for merger control review under the Anti-monopoly Law (the AML), published its decision to block Coca-Cola’s proposed US$2.4bn acquisition of Chinese fruit juice producer Huiyuan (the Transaction

On 29 September 2009, two days before the Chinese National Day holidays, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) conditionally cleared two offshore acquisitions involving US companies: Pfizer’s acquisition of Wyeth and General Motors’ acquisition of Delphi